About Us: Frankenfield Farm Market is a family run vegetable, beef and crop farm. We grow ALL OUR OWN sweet corn, tomatoes and pumpkins. In season watermelon, potatoes, mums, straw and corn shocks are available. The farm grows timothy and grass hay in small square bales and round bales for the Augus Beef herd and as well as to sell for horses or other livestock. In addition to hay we grow field corn, soybeans and rye for use on our farm. Rye straw is also available for sale in small square bales for landscaping or decoration. Call or email us for current availability and price. Our Farming Methods: We practice sustainable conservation farming to provide the best possible fresh produce to our customers.  The key focus in our fields is to use the No-Till farming method along with cover crops and crop rotation.  In No-Till farming the soil is not tilled with any kind of plow or tiller.  We harvest our crops and immediately plant a cover crop to protect the soil over the winter and capture and hold nutrients for the next season's crop.  We plant the cover crop either by broadcasting the seed on the soil surface or using a no-till seed drill to place the seeds in the ground with little soil disturbance.  The following spring we spray the cover crop with Round up to stop it's growth and then plant our crops in the dead cover crop with a planter that only cuts a slice in the soil, drops the seed and closes the slot back up.  The goal on our fields is to always have a living and growing crop in them.  The benefits of no-tilling and cover crops is that there is little if any soil erosion, the soil has more microbes and earthworms, it holds moisture longer in dry spells and is more the way soils are in nature.  There are no plows in nature unless you consider an earthworm a plow, which we have TONS of now that we have been no-tilling for 7 years.  When you plow the crop residue under you bury the earthworms food, by leaving the crop residue and cover crops on the soils surface you are providing a food for the earthworm and in return they are making new soil for us and their channels which we have measured to go down nearly THREE feet provide our crops a easy path to the most important thing in the summer's heat, WATER. In 2010 all 20 acres of our sweet corn was planted using no-till and I was very pleased with its ability to handle the drought stress this summer.  In 2008 all 5 acres of my pumpkins were planted into rye that was nearly 6 feet tall and rolled down flat in May and in June I planted my pumpkins directly into the thick straw mat of rye which helped to control weeds and most importantly held moisture in the very dry periods in July and August.  If you would like to know more about no-till vegetables feel free to contact me at frankenfieldfarmmarket@comcast.net Andrew Frankenfield